nonage (age as Ig) (2)

[Lat. non-not, and Eng.- age.] 1. The time of life before a person attains the age when, according to the laws of his country, he is considered competent to manage his own affairs; minority. 2. A period of immaturity generally. "That folded in its tender nonage lies, A beauteous bud, nor yet admits the skies." Hughes: Claudianus. non-aged (aged as Igd), a. [Eng. nonag ( e ) (2); -ed.] Being still in nonage; not having attained maturity. "Tell the world the Muse's love appeares In nonaged youth, as in the length of years." Browne: Britannia's Pastorals , bk. i., § 5.